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property, but that they will keep it until they can get what they think to be its value; they add, that if they were not to be the judges of the parts to be sold, they might be deprived of the very parts without which the rest would be valueless the stream that turns the millthe centre-stone of the arch. His lordship replies, that their argu ments have had no weight, and that he must be obeyed, or he will call down on them the vengeance of the King in council and of parliament. It is to be observed that his lordship's measures had undergone no examination before parliament; no committees had sat in anxious deliberation; no witnesses had been examined on the probable effects; no counsel had been heard; in short, not one of the safeguards provided against the inroads to be made on private property by half a mile of road, a bridge, dock, or a tunnel, were thought necessary, as only the rights, and property, and lives of persons under the displeasure of the public, were concerned. It is dangerous to establish as a precedent, that whenever the public voice is raised, whatever be the means or artifices employed for that purpose, it is to be obeyed without enquiry, and without respect for acknow, ledged rights. When great public excitement exists, it is the duty of government to be doubly vigilant in going with the stream to steer clear of all encroachments on private property. This caution once neglected, who can say that his property will not be the next sacrificed? The contempt manifested by Lord Bathurst for the rights and privileges of the colonists, can be ascribed to nothing but a feeling of security, arising from the persuasion that the public voice is directed against them. In other cases, government has sought the sanction of parliamentary committees, or reports of commissioners. For instance, the change effected in the law of Scotland by the introduction of trial by jury in civil cases, although an acknowledged improvement was preceded by a laborious investigation, in the course of which every person whose interests were likely to be affected, had an opportunity of being heard, No important alteration has been attempted either in Scotland or Ireland, without similar caution and investigation. In England circumspection is as much in fashion even Acts of Parliament passed for temporary purposes are not allowed to expire without enquiry; the Bank Restriction Act of 1797, which was only intended as a temporary measure, and the duration of which beyond two years after a general peace was never contemplated, was allowed to exist for years afterwards, and was not repealed until a full examination of every party and interest before committees of both Houses of Parliament. The corn laws may be adduced as another precedent for caution. The very advocates for them have long been satisfied that they are bad; but it has never been suggested by the wildest theorist that they ought to be abolished without enquiry. So far from that, the government sent a gentleman supposed to be well qualified, to the continent, for the express purpose of collecting information, and both Houses of Parliament will have been in possession of the information for months before the discussion; and before any thing is actually determined, there will be committees of both Houses, and witnesses examined from different

parts of the country. That such extreme caution is not superfluous, one example from the proceedings of the present year will prove. His Majesty's Ministers had expressed themselves in strong terms on the justice, and, indeed, indispensable necessity, of placing the Scotch and English banks on the same footing respecting small notes. The Prime Minister had said that without such uniformity the Bank of England would have to keep specie for all the Scotch banks, without any remuneration, and the Chancellor of the Exchequer had gone so far as to declare, that without such uniformity he would not envy the situation of any future Chancellor of the Exchequer; but when the subject was investigated before a committee of the House of Commons, the Chancellor of the Exchequer himself joined the majority in voting against that uniformity.

"It will scarcely be said after Mr. Canning's description of the importance and difficulty of the West India question, that it deserved or required less caution, consideration, and enquiry, than the subjects which I have just enumerated; and, therefore, I presume, now that there has been time for reflection, that no further proceedings will be adopted without the fullest and fairest investigation of the claims of the planters. If his Majesty's government will consent to be as cautious for the next three years, as Lord Bathurst, in their names,' has been precipitate for the last three, they will make some amends to the Colonist, and accomplish their object in a more effectual manner than by harshness and temerity. Mr. Canning, as the organ of administration in the House of Commons, has uniformly treated the question as one requiring time and caution; and depreciated the interference of parliament on any pretext short of contumacy. The subjoined extracts will demonstrate that the conduct of the Colonists manifests a very different spirit from that of contumacy. Wherever a disposition has been evinced to delay compliance with the wishes of government, to as great an extent as would be consistent with a due regard to safety and the rights of property, that disposition may in every instance be attributed to Lord Bathurst's inconsiderate and unconciliating despatches of the 12th of June and 9th of July, 1823, on which I have already offered remarks."

PROPOSED NEW BOND STREET UNIVERSITY,

AN EXAMINATION OF A CANDIDATE FOR A DEGREE.

We understand from very excellent authority, that an University is about to be instituted in the neighbourhood of Berkeley Square, where the old-fashioned qualifications of classical and scientific learning are to be dispensed with, and where nothing will be taught save the stiffening of cravats, the cutting out of collars, and other equally indispensable qualifications of a modern accomplished gentleman. The following is by anticipation our examination of a candidate for the degree of Bac, Dand,

Q. Repeat the articles of your faith?

A. I believe in the infallibility of Stultz. The omnipotence of

starch in cravats.

The exclusiveness of Almack's. The fit of Hoby.

The memory of Brummell.

Q. What is the meaning of the word, WORLD?

A. The place we live in that is, a circle round Grosvenor Square, which a well educated horse might complete in nine minutes and fifteen seconds.

Q. If the exertion be not too much, enumerate what you consider the world to be composed of?:

A. Imprimis.-One sun,-one moon,-myself,-my coat,-and an indefinite number of men, women, and brutes.

Q. Granting these you have mentioned to be the most important objects in it, which do you consider the next?

A. My tailor.

Q. What is the aggregate number of the population of the world? A. There were two hundred and thirty at Almack's on the last evening.

Q. What is the utmost extent of time to which a man of fashion may enjoy an intimacy?

A. From the introductory bend of the neck, to the presentment of the fore-finger; which, in cases of extraordinary excitement, has taken up a space of half an hour.

Q. Do you consider it consonant to the laws of fashion to acknowledge an intimacy at the breaking up of a rout, which was formed at the beginning of the evening?

A. I have heard of such things, but question their correctness. Q. In what do you believe the climax of human atrocity consists ¿

A. To bow to a man, to whom one never has been properly introduced.

Q. Admitting that it is perfectly correct in an exclusive enjoying an intimacy, had you ever a friend?

A. Yes; the most intimate I ever possessed, I dined with twice, and was seen with him for nearly a whole season in public, and recognized him at Almack's with a wrinkle in his shirt,-but I lost him-(sighs deeply.)

Q. What was the occasion of your parting?

A. It was suspected that his valet malted,* and wore cotton stockings in the morning.

Q. Taking it for granted that you believe it possible for a man to possess a bad character, give me your opinion what you should consider to be the vilest?

A. (Indignantly.)-A wretch who drank port wine, sent up his plate a second time for soup-used his tooth-pick more than oncethat was detected before sunset in a white cravat, or some other equal atrocity.

Q. Can you believe it probable, that a being so lost to every sense of decency and humanity can be in existence?

A. (Mysteriously.)-I have heard it so suspected.

Q. Is it agreeable to the reputation of an exclusive to marry?

* In English---drank beer.

A. Only upon the condition that he never sees his wife.

Q. Did you ever premeditate matrimony?

A. I had once a tender connection, [Jerome, my mille fleurs,] a being fraught with grace and loveliness; one, to the flounce of whose petticoat one might kneel with superstitious veneration-the extent of whose waist was irreproachable-from the pointing of whose shoe there was no appeal.

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Q. Was your attachment mutual?

A. To a miracle, my valet lost his appetite, and her lady's maid thin!(Despondingly.)

Q. You vowed eternal constancy, truth, and affection; swore that your love could be neither annihilated by time or distance; spoke of the disinterestedness of your views, and enquired whether her property was landed or vested in government securities?

A. My affection was so great, that it nearly absorbed my respect for etiquette; but I gave instructions to my lawyer, who declared my passion to her family solicitor.

Q. Did you before the solemnization of your nuptials, or the final denouement, ever see the lady?

A. I will not be positive; but believe upon one occasion I caught a glimpse of her figure.

Q. As you have described the attachment to be ardent to an extraordinary degree, may I enquire in what extremity your passion seduced you into?

A. Our lawyers carried on a flirtation, and proposed the terms of the settlement, and I looked out for a wedding coach.

Q. If the recital would not be too much for your feelings, make me acquainted with the reasons why an alliance that gave every promise of future happiness and conjugal bliss, never went further than preliminaries?

A. I was nearly falling a sacrifice, but was saved from the brink of destruction by a fortunate though awful discovery.

Q. Do not exert yourself by repeating too much at once; endeavour to compose yourself, and inform us what it was?

A. The day my solicitor had obtained a special license, while my soul was revelling in all the joyous emotion of hope, fanned into certainty, it was hinted, that the tenderest object of my enthusiastic regard, the future partner of my name and parties, the fond idol of my bewildered soul, had actually consummated a supper with a steel fork!!!(Faints.) Examination continued.

Q. I will no longer put a trial on your feelings by dwelling on these tender topics: do you know an individual called the king?

A. The person Brummel introduced into notice? Yes, I think I have heard there was such a man..

Q. Presuming that he is still in existence, is he one whom you could, without violence to your feelings, speak to in public?

A. (After a pause) It would depend upon what company I saw

him in.

Q. Can you read?

A. (Looks surprised) I believe I could if I were to try. I have heard it said that my footman does.

Q. If, upon some extraordinary occasion, it would be necessary for a gentleman to swear, what would be the form of the oath? A. (Solemnly) By the memory of Brummell's cravat.

Q. At what time of the day is it decorous for a man of fashion to be visible?

A. An hour before sunset, when the world is sufficiently aired for a gentleman to indulge in a morning ride or walk.

Q. As fashion confers but a qualified immortality, what would be your dying wish?

A. That my grave-clothes would be of the finest muslin; and that no vulgar fellows, who were suspected of indulging in gin or tobacco, would carry my coffin.

Q. From the acuteness of your replies to the various questions with which I have troubled you, I feel convinced you must have seen much of the world. Allow me to ask you, have you any belief of its extending beyond the region you first mentioned?

A. I once caught a glimpse of a place called Oxford Street. Q. Did you gratify your curiosity to nofice whether it was inhabited or not, or were you prevented?

A. I was-by a monster.

Q. Describe it was it in the form of a man, a dragon, or a rhinoceros?

A. I am unable to form an opinion of its nature, but it wore a collar to its shirt, its shoe ribbons unironed, and, oh! (a glass of distilled water, or I shall faint) a human countenance without whiskers.

Q. Did you escape without injury?

A. I caught cold from the naked appearance of its face*.

Q. If I am not fatiguing you with too many questions, perhaps you will inform me whether you are acquainted with the situation of a place, island, or peninsula, called Russell Square, which was added to our dominions by our worthy friend, Mr. Croker, in a voyage of discoveries which he made in the year 1825?

A. I take particular pride in replying, that I was one of the chosen individuals who accompanied the adventurous traveller on that most perilous and enterprising expedition.

Q. Perhaps you will favor the Court of Examiners with the particulars of the discovery, and a brief description of the savages or indigites of the soil of this new acquisition..

A. With pleasure. I have a journal of the remarkable incidents which I invariably keep near my person, and, according to your request, will read it.

THE DISCOVERY OF RUSSELL SQUARE,

The conditions of our enterprise having been finally arranged, and our instructions delivered, sealed by the Lords of the Admiralty, after a few months preparation we were enabled to commence our Although this asseveration of the honorable gentleman may appear a little hyperbolical, it must not be forgotten that Mr. Brummell experienced the same malady by the negligence of his valet in putting him in a room with a damp stranger.

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